Comments on: America Is Exceptional, And So Can You http://www.theamericanconservative.com/larison/2008/09/15/america-is-exceptional-and-so-can-you/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=america-is-exceptional-and-so-can-you n. the principle of good order<br /><br /> "Observe the strange inversion of all order and sense! Dignity debased; how vilely is the function of a consul prostituted!" ~The Craftsman Fri, 10 Feb 2012 02:25:26 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Daniel Larison http://www.theamericanconservative.com/larison/2008/09/15/america-is-exceptional-and-so-can-you/comment-page-1/#comment-13946 Daniel Larison Mon, 15 Sep 2008 21:11:08 +0000 http://www.amconmag.com/larison/2008/09/15/america-is-exceptional-and-so-can-you/#comment-13946 Some commenters seem not to understand conditional statements. I am not saying that Obama never uses such language--obviously, he uses it all the time--but that the same people who fall at Palin's feet would treat the language she uses as nonsense if he were using it. I know this because this is exactly what they've done for months. Talk about missing the irony in a statement. Some commenters seem not to understand conditional statements. I am not saying that Obama never uses such language–obviously, he uses it all the time–but that the same people who fall at Palin’s feet would treat the language she uses as nonsense if he were using it. I know this because this is exactly what they’ve done for months. Talk about missing the irony in a statement.

]]> By: nathansmith http://www.theamericanconservative.com/larison/2008/09/15/america-is-exceptional-and-so-can-you/comment-page-1/#comment-13939 nathansmith Mon, 15 Sep 2008 18:50:25 +0000 http://www.amconmag.com/larison/2008/09/15/america-is-exceptional-and-so-can-you/#comment-13939 "If Obama uttered such saccharine nonsense, he would be mocked for months for his drippy, feel-good sentimentality." Obama speaks a language of pandering platitudes all the time. He has been mocked for it for months. If he, or his allies, were to mock Sarah Palin for using feel-good, substance-less talk just to please crowds, well, let's just say the charge would remind voters of someone they know. Poetic justice. I don't know whether it's method or accident, but it's hilariously funny. Poor Larison. So earnest, when fun ironies appear in politics, he can't enjoy it. “If Obama uttered such saccharine nonsense, he would be mocked for months for his drippy, feel-good sentimentality.”

Obama speaks a language of pandering platitudes all the time. He has been mocked for it for months. If he, or his allies, were to mock Sarah Palin for using feel-good, substance-less talk just to please crowds, well, let’s just say the charge would remind voters of someone they know. Poetic justice. I don’t know whether it’s method or accident, but it’s hilariously funny.

Poor Larison. So earnest, when fun ironies appear in politics, he can’t enjoy it.

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